If any of us had just read Oriana Falaci’s “A man”, a biography of Alexandros Panaogoulis, a Greek hero of the Resistance Movement during the fascist military dictatorship in Greece, he would have been appalled by the gruesome torture of this Greek anti-tyranny fighter. He would be appalled by these torturers in prisons and the imaginativeness of his executioners and the hatred that accompanied it. Each of us might think that we could discuss the similarities and differences of the evil of abuse that we have had the misfortune to know! Similarities and differences of torture in the real and digital world! There is no answer to the question of how these executioners could have been so determined, how they were not sorry!
Is it just an addiction to the pleasure of Inflicting pain or obedience in fulfilling orders? In dictatorial regimes, it is – the unpunished possibility of probing not the limits of the victim’s endurance, but the limits of endurance of both the one who issues orders and the one who executes them.
Does this mean that there is already a way to replace torture in camps and prisons for political disobedient people in dystopian societies, which may be waiting for us? How many of us have already been anonymous Alexandros Panaogoulis? Haw many have lost the battle with such gruesome punishments and persecutions? Have our homes become our prisons in which we suffer without knowledge and evidence for others in the Orwellian lying world of persecution? And how passionate it would be if it was known to a large part of the public, which would follow it with the compassionate arms crossed? This could lead to a gruesome collective collapse of a community, society, state and difficult paths of recovery. The decision on the impunity of such crimes should not be commented on!
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